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Leigh BishopIn February 2003 he was invited to speak at the International Shipwreck Conference at Plymouth University and later that year made his first appearance as a speaker at the European photographic seminar' Visions in the Sea' at King's College London.
Jack Heslop-HarrisonIn 1974 he delivered the Royal Society's Croonian Lecture, and his presentation was well received.
Marilynne RobinsonIn May 2011, Robinson delivered Oxford University's annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters at the university's Rothermere American Institute.
Joe HockeyOn 9 November 2009, Hockey gave a speech, In Defence of God, at the Sydney Institute.''
H. C. Erik MidelfortMidelfort delivered his final undergraduate lecture on April 28, 2008 on the topic of magic and modernity.
Frank Close His Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1993, entitled The Cosmic Onion, gave their name to one of his books.
Seth MacFarlaneMacFarlane was invited by Harvard University's class of 2006 to deliver the'' class day'' address on June 7, 2006.
Dennis JacobsIn 2006, Jacobs delivered a speech entitled'' The Secret Life Of Judges'' as the 2006 John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture at Fordham University School of Law.
Jordan BanksIn 2012, Jordan was invited to deliver The Last Lecture at the University of Western Ontario.
Edwin AldermanAlderman was a noted public speaker, and won fame for his memorial address for Woodrow Wilson, delivered to a joint session of Congress on December 15, 1924.
Richard FeynmanFeynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
Margaret SomervilleIn November 2006, she gave the five annual Massey Lectures on CBC Radio in Canada.
Gary V. NelsonEarlier in 2008, he delivered the Graduation Address at Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad in which his Church Society is a participating member Nelson has lectured and taught courses at seminaries throughout Canada for more than two decades.
David J AppleHis meeting with WHO Programme director Dr. Bjorn Thylefors of the Prevent Blindness Division, was instrumental in providing information to WHO on which type of IOL should be used in cataract surgery in developing countries In 1998 he became the only American to have been selected to give the European Guest Lecture at the respected Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, held annually at the University of Oxford.
Robert H. GundryIn 2000 Gundry presented the essence of Jesus the Word as the 30th annual lecture of the Institute for Biblical Research.
Steve WozniakOn October 20, 2011, Wozniak delivered a keynote presentation entitled'' Today's Science Fiction, Tomorrow's Science Fact'' at IP EXPO, a Computer expo which took place at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London.
Tod MachoverMachover gave a keynote lecture at NIME-02, the second international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, which was held in 2002 at the former Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland, and is a frequent lecturer worldwide.
Andrija ?tamparIn 1938, he received an invitation from Harvard University in Boston, where he delivered a lecture.
Yaya Diallo_ The last concert and workshop sponsored by World Music Institute for African Troubadours including Yaya Diallo was on Feb. 25 at the U. C. San Diego ; year 2000.
Natasha FalleIn October 2012, Falle was the keynote speaker at a symposium on street prostitution and human trafficking, which took place at Croatian Hall in Greater Sudbury and was attended by approximately 100 people.
Dale KirbyHe did not attend the original swearing-in ceremony on October 27, 2011 because he was previously scheduled to deliver a keynote address at an international conference on e-learning in Cartagena, Colombia on the same day.
Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)At the meeting of the British Association in 1833 he spoke on his establishment by experiment of the existence of conical refraction in biaxial crystals, in conformity with the theory of William Rowan Hamilton.
Kerry StokesHe delivered the Andrew Olle Media Lecture in October 2001.
Hossein NasrNasr was the first Muslim to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures, and in year 2000, a volume was devoted to him in the Library of Living Philosophers.
Enrique del MoralIn 1947 he traveled with the rector to the United States to visit various schools and talk to architects about educational systems.
Albin van HoonackerWhile in England he was invited to give the 1914 Schweich Lectures, on the subject of the Elephantine colony.
Raymond ShonholtzIn November 2011 he delivered the keynote address to the Oregon Mediation Association 25th Annual Conference.
John Krebs, Baron Krebs In 2005 he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on The Truth About Food.
Wilhelm BacherBacher delivered the inaugural address in the name of the faculty at the opening of the institution on Oct. 4, 1877, and remained as teacher of the Biblical sciences, of Jewish history, and of various other branches at that institution.
Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiShe has been invited to deliver the Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion at Oxford University in the Spring of 2010.
AbhishiktanandaDuring this period he was also participating in a series of interreligious meetings, conferences and study sessions, including participation in the All-India Seminar in Bangalore (15 May -- 20 June 1969), etc.
Silvan Zingg In 2010 Zingg was invited to give a concert/lecture about the history of Boogie Woogie at the University of Texas in Brownsville.
Albert GeyserIn 1960 he was given an extensive hearing in the distinguished scholarly theological journal of his Church, Hervormde Teologiese Studies, when he launched a scathing attack on a theological justification of apartheid as advocated in a book on'' Eiesoortige Ontwikkeling tot Volksdiens'' by Professor A. B. du Preez, at the time Professor of Dogmatics in the Faculty of Theology (Section B) at the University of Pretoria.
Zenon PylyshynHe was invited to give the Jean Nicod lectures in Paris in 2004.
Michael TobiasConsistent with his long-standing philosophical and scientific efforts to reconcile animal rights and conservation biology, Tobias delivered the annual keynote address at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in March, 2012, as the opening for a symposium on Conservation Biology, Animal Rights, and Comparative Religions.
Bradford LeavittLeavitt's views were best summarized in an address he gave to the graduating class of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco on May 19, 1904, at the Alhambra Theater on the cusp of the quake that decimated the city.''
Ma Ying-jeouMa had to clarify his remarks regarding simplified characters at in a 15-minute speech before the sixth International Conference on Internet Chinese Education on 19 June 2009.
Shepard SmithHe frequently returns to the university during college football season and delivered the university's annual commencement address on May 10, 2008.
Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanAnother important academic event during this period was the invitation to deliver the Hibbert Lecture on the ideals of life which he delivered at Harris Manchester College, Oxford in 1929 and which was subsequently published in book form as An Idealist View of Life.
Francis Martin O'Donnellphp?go news17), and more recently was guest speaker at the Conference for Young Christian Professionals held in Rome on 28 -- 30 November 2008, where he addressed the subject of Leadership Challenges in the Service of Society.
Gopal PrasadPrasad gave an invited talk in the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto in 1990.
Benjamin Ward Richardsonpresident of the health section of the Social Science Association, notably in 1875, when he delivered a celebrated address at Brighton on'' Hygeia'', in which he told of what a city should be if sanitary science were advanced in a proper manner.
Peter MairHe continued to work at Leiden University becoming professor of comparative politics in 1994 when he held an inaugural address entitled'' Party democracies and their difficulties''.
Josip PlemeljAfter the 2nd World War Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti (Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts) (SAZU) had published his three year's course of lectures for students of mathematics : Teorija analitičnih funkcij (The theory of analytic functions), (SAZU, Ljubljana 1953, pp XVI +516), Diferencialne in integralske enačbe.
Neil deGrasse TysonHe attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival symposium on November 2006.
Helen CaldicottIn May 2003, Caldicott gave a lecture entitled'' The New Nuclear Threat'' at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.
Guenter B. RisseTo illustrate this approach, Risse organized a session in May 2007 at the American Association for the History of Medicine meeting in Montreal titled'' History in the Post-Genomic Era : New Perspectives on Health, Disease and Medicine,'' illustrating examples of such insights for understanding Neolithic hunters, the medieval Black Death, and 20th century pandemic influenza.
Robert Smith CandlishIn 1854 he delivered, in Exeter Hall, London, a lecture on the Theological Essays of the Rev. F. D. Maurice, which he afterwards published, along with a fuller examination of the doctrine of the essays.
Desmond TutuIn June 1999, Tutu was invited to give the annual Wilberforce Lecture in Kingston upon Hull, commemorating the life and achievements of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
Arn Chorn-PondIn November 2012, he was invited to the State University of New York at Oswego to give a speech to students at college that brought the entire audience into tears.
H. Vinson SynanIn 1972 Synan was invited by Kilian McDonnell to speak at the third annual Catholic Charismatic Conference at Notre Dame University.
William Abel CaudillThese include'' The Influence of Social Structure and Culture on Human Behavior in Modern Japan,'' which was extracted from Caudill's presentation at a symposium on'' Culture, Change, and Psychological Adjustment'' at the Eighth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Science in Tokyo, in September 1968.
Alice Cunningham FletcherShe was a pioneer in the study of American Indian music, a field of research inaugurated by a paper she gave in 1893 before the Chicago Anthropological Conference.
Julian JaynesIn 1984 he was invited to give the plenary lecture at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria.
Madeleine L'EngleIn 1985 she was a guest speaker at the Library of Congress, giving a speech entitled'' Dare to be Creative !''
Mack A. BreazealeIn 1987 he gave the President's lecture and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE UFFC Society and gave a total of 39 lectures in the US, China, Japan, Italy and Denmark.
John TrobaughTrobaugh was a presenter for Photography in the Digital Age by The Society For Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference, 2003.
Sally MannIn May 2011 she delivered the three-day Massey Lecture Series at Harvard.
E. F. SchumacherWhile delivering the Gandhi Memorial Lecture at the Gandhian Institute of Studies at Varanasi (India) in 1973, Schumacher described Gandhi as the greatest ` People's Economist.'
Parag PathakIn 2012, he was selected to give the Shapley Lecture, a lecture in honor of Lloyd Shapley given by a distinguished game theorist aged 40 or under at the 4th World Congress of the Game Theory Society.
David Orme MassonHis inaugural lecture was given on 23 March 1887, titled'' The Scope and Aim of Chemical Science''.
Hubert ChesshyreIn 1998 the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society appointed Chesshyre to deliver its annual Mountbatten Memorial Lecture (Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was President of the Cambridge University Society of Genealogists and Patron of CUHAGS).
Susan GreenfieldIn 1994, she was invited to be the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, then sponsored by the BBC.
David A. JaffeHe was the Keynote Speaker at the conference of the Australian Computer Music Association in 1995 and has been an invited speaker at the Aspen Design Conference, the InStat MDR Microprocessor Forum, the USENIX Conference and elsewhere.
Gerhard Huisken1998 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ('' Evolution of hypersurfaces by their curvature in Riemannian Manifolds'').
Silvanus P. Thompsonthumb | 250px | right | Silvanus Thompson lecturing at the Royal Institution Thompson repeated Röntgen's experiments on the day after the discovery was announced in the UK and following this gave the first public demonstration of the new rays at the Clinical Society of London on 30 March 1896.
David Morrison (astrophysicist)He is a popular public writer and lecturer, promoting a scientific and fact-based perspective about such topics as Emmanuel Velikovsky's pseudocosmology, the evolution-creationist conflict, climate change denialism, and the 2012 doomsday hoax.
Martin Villeneuve On February 27, 2013, Martin Villeneuve gave a ted.
Idun ReitenShe delivered the Emmy Noether Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.
Ray FarquharsonThe Ray F. Farquharson Memorial Lecture was established in his memory ; the first such lecture was delivered by John Eager Howard of Johns Hopkins University in 1968 on the topic of calcium metabolism.
Mary McCarthy (author)In 1973, she delivered the prestigious Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature ?
Robert Cockburn (physicist) In 1967 he was invited to deliver the 56th Wilbur and Orville Wright Memorial Lecture' A New Phase in Aviation ?'
Alan TuringPrevious events have included a celebration of Turing's life and achievements, at the University of Manchester, arranged by the British Logic Colloquium and the British Society for the History of Mathematics on 5 June 2004.
Richard De SmetAfter an initially suspicious reception (a Dr Chubb roundly accused him of excessive missionary zeal at the Kandy session of the Indian Philosophical Congress in 1954), his competence and self-possession won the day and he soon found himself being invited to lecture or give courses at universities and colleges across the country.
Ken Lum In 1997, Lum was a keynote speaker for the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference.
Annie RussellShe also gave several speeches to drama students, the first speech to the graduates of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in March 1902.
Ajai R. Singh Singh has also delivered the Desousa oration on ` The road ahead : for Indian, psychiatric and medical research' (2010), and the VPM Oration on ` Sleep disorders : what can you do to help yourself' (2010).
S?ndor FerencziThough desperately ill with the then-untreatable disease, Ferenczi managed to deliver his most famous paper,'' Confusion of Tongues'' to the 12th International Psycho-Analytic Congress in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 4 September 1932.
James Bell PettigrewMost unusually, as an undergraduate, he was invited to deliver the Croonian Lectures of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1860.
Nancy RothwellIn 1998 she delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on The Secrets of Life, televised by the BBC.
Arun Manilal Gandhipdf Arun Gandhi's 2011 tour of Honolulu was sponsored by Barbara Altemus of the org We Are One Foundation and by the com Gandhian International Institute for Peace.
Alfred TarskiTarski's ties to the Unity of Science movement saved his life, because they resulted in his being invited to address the Unity of Science Congress held in September 1939 at Harvard University.
Christopher Jargocki In 1996 he won a $ 10,000 award in the worldwide science and religion course competition sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation for a course entitled, Science and Religion : From Conflict to Dialogue.
Moez MasoudAt The Search for Mutual Understanding (an inter-faith conference held in Abu Dhabi in 2006) he gave a speech titled'' Islam in the Modern World''.
Vinod JohriJohri organized the International Symposium on Cosmology at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995.
Jean de MenasceIn 1947 the University of Paris invited him to give a series of seminars at the Sorbonne on the Zoroastrian Denkart, which were later published.
Prabodh Chandra BagchiIt is interesting to note that an International Conference (23 -- 24 Nov. 2008) was held in Beijing to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of Professors Prabodh Chandra Bagchi and Tan Yunshan by remembering their scholarly contribution to Sino-Indian studies.
Heather MallickIn October 2007, Mallick gave the 2nd annual Mel Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada, at the University of Alberta.
Andrew SherrattHe was invited to give the prestigious Human Context and Society lectures at Boston University in 1998 and his topic was' Between Evolution and History : long-term change in human societies'.
Yaroslav SenyshynSenyshyn, Y. (2002) `` The Philosophy and Psychology of Performance Anxiety and its Subjective, Relational, and Discursive Potentiality'' Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, 2002, 117-120.
Alexander du ToitIn 1949, the year after du Toit's death, the Geological Society of South Africa inaugurated a biennial lecture series in his honour that continues to the present day.
Charles Cornwallis ChesneyBut the work which attained the greatest reputation was his Waterloo Lectures (1868), prepared from the notes of lectures orally delivered at the Staff College.
Toshio IwaiIn June 2004 Iwai gave a prestigious invited public lecture at the 4th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, held in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Kevin WarwickKevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled' The Rise of Robots' in the year 2000.
Mahadev Govind RanadeHe presided a function to honor his friend, Virchand Gandhi, who had defended Indian culture and jainism in 1893's world religion parliament in Chicago, USA.
Abu Mayanja The Abu Mayanja Foundation inaugural memorial lecture was delivered by the renown African academic and political writer Professor Ali Mazrui on 30 July 2007 at the Rwenzori Ball Room, Sheraton Kampala Hotel.
Billy GrahamIn 1998, Graham spoke at TED (conference) to a crowd of scientists and philosophers.
Negin FarsadShe was also selected as a TED Fellow and gave a TED Talk in 2013 for her work in social justice comedy.
Peter GabrielOn 18 July 2007, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of a new group, The Elders, in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his 89th birthday.
Dennis ByronOn 16 March 2011, he delivered the 9th Annual Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law Lecture of the United Nations Association of London hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.